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Samuel Bishop Quotes

1731–1795 England

Samuel Bishop (21 September 1731 – 17 November 1795) was an English poet, clergyman and teacher.

England
Poets

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In myriad swarms, each summer sun
An insect nation shows;
Whose being, since he rose, begun;
And e’er he sets will close.
Brief is their date, confin’d their pow’rs,
The fluttering of a day;—
Yet life’s worth living, ev’n for hours,
When all those hours—are play.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Bishop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.